Characteristics of the sperm tail of the velvet worm, Euperipatoides leuckarti (Onychophora) - PubMed (original) (raw)
Characteristics of the sperm tail of the velvet worm, Euperipatoides leuckarti (Onychophora)
R Dallai et al. Tissue Cell. 1993 Dec.
Abstract
The onychophoran sperm tail contains several kinds of microtubulcs; probably more than that of any other animal group. There are thus a peripheral manchette consisting of many tightly spaced microtubules, a ring of nine 'peripheral singlets' and a central axoneme of the classical 9 + 2 type (nine doublets and two central singlets). The protofilament organization of these various microtubules was examined and compared to the structure and mode of formation of the peripheral singlets with that of its analogues in other animal groups. The onychophoran peripheral singlets were found to differ in two respects from those in insects: they are formed from the manchette rather than from the axonemal doublets and their transient connection to the axoneme is to the A-subtubules of the doublet rather than to the B-subtubules. The manchette microtubules as well as the peripheral singlets consist of 13 protofilaments. The manchette may serve a mechanical function (to strengthen the unusually thick sperm tail) hut the role of the peripheral singlets remains unknown.
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